In one of his very first acts as pope, Pope St. Pius V in Cum Primum on April 1, ARSH 1566 ordered that sodomites be executed by the secular authorities.

Two years later, he declared in a Constitution:

“That horrible crime, on account of which corrupt and obscene cities were destroyed by fire through divine condemnation, causes us most bitter sorrow and shocks our mind, impelling us to repress such a crime with the greatest possible zeal.

Quite opportunely the Fifth Lateran Council [1512-1517] issued this decree: “Let any member of the clergy caught in that vice against nature, given that the wrath of God falls over the sons of perfidy, be removed from the clerical order or forced to do penance in a monastery” (chap. 4, X, V, 31).

So that the contagion of such a grave offense may not advance with greater audacity by taking advantage of impunity, which is the greatest incitement to sin, and so as to more severely punish the clerics who are guilty of this nefarious crime and who are not frightened by the death of their souls, we determine that they should be handed over to the severity of the secular authority, which enforces civil law.

Therefore, wishing to pursue with greater rigor than we have exerted since the beginning of our pontificate, we establish that any priest or member of the clergy, either secular or regular, who commits such an execrable crime, by force of the present law be deprived of every clerical privilege, of every post, dignity and ecclesiastical benefit, and having been degraded by an ecclesiastical judge, let him be immediately delivered to the secular authority to be put to death, as mandated by law as the fitting punishment for laymen who have sunk into this abyss.” (Constitution Horrendum illud scelus, August 30, 1568, in Bullarium Romanum, Rome: Typographia Reverendae Camerae Apostolicae, Mainardi, 1738, chap. 3, p. 33)

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This sodomite crap isn’t a game, folks. Satan is playing for keeps, and we would all do well to face this fact now.  Better late than never.

Pray for us to the Lord Our God, Papa Ghislieri, that we be delivered from the brutal jackboot of the sodomites.

Hi Ann,

One of the strongest Christian apologists to the Islamic world is Sam Shamoun. He knows both the Bible and Koran inside and out, but what’s more, he has delved into the historical record to understand the ideas and practices of Mohammed’s time to help understand how the Koran was cobbled together. One piece of the puzzle that he’s put together is how the practices and beliefs of Ba’al worshipers made their way into the Koran.

Hubal was the chief god worshipped in pre-Islamic Arabia, notably by the Quraysh (Mohammed’s tribe) at the Kaaba in Mecca. He goes into great detail in the post below, with evidence that Hubal was seen as the moon god and associated with rites of fertility and abundance in Ba’al worship. As an aside, in one of Shamoun’s videos he points out that one of the titles of Allah in the Koran is as-Samad, a title that is a bit of a mystery until one considers that it was a historical title of Ba’al in Mecca: Hubal Samad (literally, the Lord of the Club).

Of course, Arabia was polytheistic, and so in Mecca other feminine deities (al-Lat, al-Uzza, and Manat) were also worshiped – Mohammed’s father, in fact, was referred to as Abd al-Lat, “a slave of al-Lat”. Parenthetically, these three goddesses are those that were mentioned in the Koran’s satanic verses when Mohammed threw a bone to his first coreligionists and said these goddesses would act as intercessors. (cf. Quran 53:19–20)

My point here is that the Koran is clearly a clumsy and inconsistent mélange of the theologies of the faiths that were circulating in Mecca at Mohammed’s time: paganism, Nestorian Christianity, and Judaism. “God” as described by Mohammed will end up having properties of all three faiths: the strict monotheism of Judaism, the elevation of Jesus as a unique and important prophet, etc. What’s disturbing to me, however, how much Ba’al worship pervades Islam, and remains extant particularly in its moral theology.

Once having become aware of the connection between Islam and Ba’al worship, a lot of the most pernicious teachings of Islam came into clear focus. In Christian demonology, Ba’al is one of the five demons hierarchically just below Satan. These five are known as the five generals, as they’re tasked with destroying societies through sexual deviancy. Ba’al, the chief among the five, is a demon of sexual impurity focused on male heterosexual sin: fornication, polygamy, etc. It’s fascinating that in these areas Islam bifurcates from Judaism and Christianity most strongly. Polygamy is sanctioned in Islam, as is sexual slavery (called in Islam “right-hand possessions”), and easy divorce.

This weird and unholy focus on unrestricted male sexual agency is found all over the Koran and the Hadith. Mohammed eventually married 11 wives, including the 6 year old Aisha with whom he consummated his marriage when she was nine. Mohammed was said in fact to have the sexual strength of 30 men when visiting his nine wives. (Sahih Bukhari, Vol 1, Bk 5, N 268). Most disturbingly, is Islam’s twisted version of heaven, a place where believers would be able to spend eternity engaged in intercourse with female companions called Houri.

If, God forbid, the Western world should abandon its Christianity in favor of Islam, we will see all the pathologies of Islam visited upon it: honor killings, exclusion of women from public spaces, wife-beating, and cousin marriage, the latter being a consequence of polygamy which creates a lack of marriageable women causing families to save their daughters for the men in their extended families. That is not a future I would wish for anyone.

Sam Shamoun on the undercurrent of Ba’al worship in Islam:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250925213809/https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2020/03/20/the-religion-of-islam-the-reemergence-of-baal-worship/

— N

https://www.msn.com/en-in/crime/general/epstein-emails-spark-new-baal-demon-worship-human-sacrifice-rumours-after-mecca-cloth-controversy/vi-AA1VN1IU

Hi, Ann.

Big fan! In honor of PriDEMONth and the interminable Synod on Synodality (but I repeat myself), I’ve done what any good Catholic would do – I’ve written a show tune! It’s called “Synodomy,” a word which occurred to me, made me giggle (still does), and struck me as far more phonetically reflective of what the “synod” is actually all about than the awkward and stupid “synodality.”

The snappier/creepier “Synodomy” also lends itself well to various delightful variations such as: “synodomize,” “synodomite,” “synodomitical,” … the possibilities are endless!

I wrote the lyrics and then couldn’t resist using Satan’s AI/SUNO to “produce” the song. I have to say, I think Satan’s AI knocked it out of the park! I hope you agree.

If you’re still reading, I invite you and give you full legal license to share this song with your audience and adopt the “Synodomy” lexicon described above as your own in your future reportage and commentary. I have no platform, don’t want one, and would be unemployed and imprisoned if I did. For this reason, I also require no personal credit should you share the song and/or language. I hope you don’t think me a coward. I just don’t know that this particular hill is the one upon which I wish to be martyred. There will be others 😃.

Thanks, Ann. Please be assured of my prayers for you and your excellent work!

B

“Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.”
-Karl Marx

The second sentence is so very, very true, but NOT in the way Marx meant it (or did he?), nor the way today’s Neo-pagan zombies would read it.  Young women today are basically chemically neutered sows, used as single-use, disposable masturbation aides by men, and kept docile, distracted, and amused by an ever-growing mercenary army of sodomite men.

Make no mistake.  Women today live in a psycho-spiritual imprisonment, and fags are the prison guards on the cell block.

Methinks it is time again to at least re-link to my essay:

THE ONE ABOUT WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE

Women’s suffrage was perhaps the key offensive campaign of the final offensive by the enemy, even more so than the Federal Reserve or the Income Tax, because it is a direct strike against the foundation of all human civilization – MARRIAGE and the FAMILY. Financial and governmental sins can be corrected and walked back, albeit at a cost, so long as there is a sound cultural, societal base producing good men, which in turn form and maintain a decent culture and government.  Strike at marriage and thus the family, and you strike at the very source of good men.  Bomb the factory, end munition mass production.  Bomb the family, end the mass production of good men. No good men, no good culture, no good government.  Period.

The 19th Amendment passed the House in May ARSH 1919, the Senate in June, and was ratified by the states in August ARSH 1920.

And the rest, as they say, is herstory.

Should not have the right to vote. 👆🏻

The cause of homosexuality, and all aberrosexuality is DIABOLICAL NARCISSISM. Diabolical Narcissism can be defined as the voluntary self-purgation of love from the soul. For whatever reason, the DN at some point said to himself, “I will not love.”

The further one descends into Diabolical Narcissism, the freakier and freakier the aberrosexuality becomes. Think Charlie Sheen.  Think Miley Cyrus, Bruce Jenner and really all of the so-called “entertainment” industry. Think all musloid cultures – musloids openly screw blood relatives, children and infants, animals and dead bodies, and islam ratifies this.

Celibacy (not being married) and chastity (not engaging in sins against the 6th Commandment) have nothing to do with causing perversion and are red herrings. Don’t fall for it for a second. There is NOTHING harmful or risky about a psycho-spiritually normal person, fully and normally capable of love and thus BY INTRINSIC DEFINITION heterosexual, directing the energy of their sexuality toward a life espoused and in service to Christ and His Holy Church.

Taking vows of celibacy and chastity do not make a man or woman “asexual”.  ASEXUALITY IS HIGHLY DISORDERED, AND A RED FLAG SIGNAL OF CEREBRAL DIABOLIC NARCISSISM. Asexuality, or CLAIMS of asexuality – which are  frequently a cover for homosexuality – should be a DISQUALIFIER for the priesthood and holy orders and monastic/religious life of any kind.

The one and only normal “sexual orientation” is HETEROSEXUALITY. Period. Everything else is diabolical. There is no such thing as a “benign” homosexuality, asexuality or aberrosexuality of any stripe.  ALL are derivatives of Diabolical Narcissism, and thus extremely dangerous to souls, not only of the individual, but also to the people the Diabolical Narcissist comes in contact with.

(Man, I wish someone would make a video presentation about this.  I know it would be long – like three hours – but it is such an important and overarching subject.  Oh… wait.)

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(This is a repost with a few additions, but the topic could not be any more timely, nor the concept any more urgent to face and comprehend. The reason sodomy must be banned and criminalized aggressively under anti-obscenity statutes in the first place is precisely so that it doesn’t get to the point where the infiltration is so deep and widespread that war and capital punishment is needed to contain and purge it. Sodomites need the help of the Sacraments, but if war is finally forced by the self-inflicted damage of tolerance of the sodomites’ never sufficiently execrated depravity, as is happening now, that opportunity is lost. Strictly enforced anti-sodomy laws are the quintessence of Christian mercy. -AB ’24)

We are at war with sodomites, whether we like it or not, because sodomites are at war with us.  We are in a war with execrable faggots like James Martin, Ethh Jay, and really all unrepentant sodomites.  Given that all sexual/sodomitical perversion is a derivative of Diabolical Narcissism, sodomites, exactly like the demons they emulate, prowl throughout the world seeking the ruin of souls.  They want to drag as many people as possible down into hell with them, and it all begins with the hell-on-earth that they wallow in.

One of their tactics, which I think many naive people fall for, is the notion and propaganda that sodomitical acts are really not much different from normal, human, heterosexual sex.  I think a lot of people assume that the vagina and the rectal vault are similar structures.  I also think that lots of people have fallen for the lie consciously put forth by the sodomite media machine that most faggots don’t engage in anal sodomy, but rather only engage in oral-penile sodomy and mutual masturbation.  This is a lie.  the VAST majority of faggots engage not just in penile-anal sodomy, but also in oral-anal sodomy (coprophagia, the ingestion of feces, as Antipope Bergoglio taught us all the term for) and just generally shoving things up the rectal vault, including hands, objects such as light bulbs, and even live animals (that’s not a joke – when you hear remarks made about sodomites and gerbils or hamsters, that isn’t any sort of exaggeration.)

The link below is an essay by Joseph Sciambra, a man who engaged in sodomy for years, and then, by the power of Jesus Christ, renounced his sin and now exposes the truth about sodomy and the sodomite culture and attempts to evangelize sodomites in their ghettoes and enclaves.  Joseph Sciambra is an invaluable resource and warrior, and should be prayed for early and often. Pray for him. He has left the Church after being attacked by sodomite clerics and prelates. The scandal of sodomy claims victims in many ways.

If you think that the world of sodomy is just a bunch of witty, well-dressed guys kissing with their mouths open and giving each other bl**j**s, and as long as we don’t have to see it, it’s no harm-no foul, then you need to read Sciambra’s devastating expose of what really goes on.

You might be tempted to stop reading when Sciambra describes his rectum prolapsing (yes, his rectum turned inside-out and fell out of his anus).

You might be tempted to stop reading when Sciambra describes how he was constantly battling shigella, an infection of the mouth caused by ingesting feces – which, thanks to Antipope Bergoglio, we all know the term for – coprophagia.  This is why male sodomites are often missing teeth.

You might be tempted to stop when Sciambra describes one of his sodomite friends who would wistfully pine for the day that he could take a man’s arm inserted up his rectum and into his intestinal tract… past the elbow.

You might be tempted to stop reading when you reach Sciambra’s description of the deepest back room of the bathhouse, where there was an altar, surrounded by men kneeling on the floor with their faces on the semen-and-feces-soaked floor, holding open their inter-gluteal cleft and just… waiting.

Read it all the way through, and then feel the terror – the completely rational, healthy terror – that these people walk among us, and that we invite them into our schools and homes, most commonly through the Tabernacle of Satan, the teevee.  Sit in stillness with the fact that most-to-many of today’s Novus Ordo priests and bishops engage in these behaviors, and then turn around and sometimes within a matter of MINUTES ascend the altar to offer the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Sit in terrified stillness with the fact that a massive percentage of Novus Ordo priests and bishops today have never, not one time, offered the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass while not in a state of unrepentant mortal sin – they entered seminary as active sodomites with no intention of stopping, they were ordained priests as active, unrepentant sodomites, and they were elevated to the episcopacy as unrepentant, active sodomites.

When people fall for the sodomite’s ruse of calling people “homophobic”, and then insisting that they “aren’t scared” of sodomites, that is a victory for the sodomites.  A phobia is an IRRATIONAL fear of something.  After reading Sciambra’s piece, you should realize that one of the reasons the sodomites have essentially destroyed western civilization in only a few decades is because the normal people were tricked into purging themselves of the completely healthy, RATIONAL, sane revulsion and fear of these incredibly dangerous people all in the name of the false virtue of “tolerance”.  Up until just recently, it was precisely the good, healthy fear of sex perverts that was the first line of societal defense, especially among children.  People knew that people who were capable of committing sodomitical acts were extremely dangerous, to be driven out, and defended against.

Am I scared of sodomites?

You’re damn right I am.  

They are some of the most evil and dangerous people alive.  It would be completely irrational to NOT fear a person who is so incredibly warped and depraved. “Phobia” has nothing to do with it, and the term “homophobia” should never be permitted, because there is no such thing as an “irrational fear” of sodomy and sodomites. It’s one of the most purely rational fears in the universe.

If you aren’t scared of sex perverts, you should be.  They are like rabid dogs.  They are terrifying and extremely dangerous. To treat a sodomite casually is worse than walking up and petting a rabid dog. Rabies only kills the body.  The sodomites want your souls.

But now I have written to you, not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother, be a fornicator, or covetous, or a server of idols, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner: with such a one, not so much as to eat. For what have I to do to judge them that are without? Do not you judge them that are within? For them that are without, God will judge. Put away the evil one from among yourselves.
1 Corinthians 5: 11-13

Courage isn’t the absence of fear.  Courage is the ability to act and do the right, including fight a war, in spite of fear.

CLICK HERE TO READ JOSEPH SCIAMBRA’S ESSAY, “Surviving Gay…Barely”
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Today is the Feast of The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, and the month of June is dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. A few thoughts on the Sacred Heart, and the Law.

A.  A mercy that springs forth from the wild and often detrimental technological progress curve of the past 100 years is the confirmation of all manner of things regarding Our Lord and His Holy Church.  Specifically today I am reminded of the fact that science has now confirmed that in all of the Eucharistic miracles which have been confirmed as genuine and involved a Consecrated Host turning fleshy, the Flesh in every instance, upon testing, is from a human male, blood type AB, and the flesh is ENDOCARDIUM, that is, INTERIOR HEART WALL.

The Sacred Heart of Jesus is not a syrupy platitude. It is a physical reality, and moreover, it is a physical reality present at every valid Mass.  The Eucharist literally, physically IS the substance of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

B.  The Gradual of the Mass for the Feast of The Sacred Heart, this year on June 12, is from Psalm 24: 8-9

“The Lord is sweet and righteous: therefore He will give a Law to sinners in the way. He will guide the mild in judgment: He will teach the meek His ways.”

Dulcis et rectus Dóminus: propter hoc legem dabit delinquéntibus in via. Díriget mansúetos in iudício, docébit mites vias suas.

If you have watched the big Diabolical Narcissism video, you will probably remember the “three rules for things you NEVER say to a DN”. They are:

1.  Never tell a DN that you love them.  This makes you a target for soul murder (that is, to scandalize you unto spiritual death and ultimately damnation).
2. Never tell a DN what makes you happy or what you are grateful for.  They will take away these things as part of their campaign to murder your soul.
3. Never tell a DN that they have hurt you.  They will use your confirmation of the success of their tactics to hurt you again, and to hurt you harder the next time.

Now, going back to the Psalm verse above, we are reminded of what The Law – that which Antipope Jorge Bergoglio railed against constantly – actually is. Read this over and over again until you get it:

The Law is God Almighty telling us what actions of ours HURT HIM AND WOUND HIS SACRED HEART.

The Law is God basically pleading with us to PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE NOT do these certain things, because these things break His Heart, and all He wants is to love us and be loved by us. So, in order for the relationship to work, we need to PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE NOT do these specific things, and if we do, we need to stop doing them, repent, confess, be contrite and amend our lives. Because when we hurt ourselves, it breaks His Heart.

Think about this in terms of relationships between men.  Doesn’t it make sense that if someone – friend, family member, spouse, coworker, even a stranger on the street, is doing something to hurt us, we want to TELL THEM so that they will understand the gravity and consequence of their actions and STOP so that we can continue the relationship in peace, whether that peace is the peace between spouses or the peace between strangers on the street?

But more importantly, any MORALLY SANE PERSON, that is, a person who is NOT a Diabolical Narcissist/Sociopath/Psychopath WANTS TO KNOW if something they are doing is hurting, much less murdering the soul, of another person SO THAT THEY CAN STOP DOING IT. When the person is someone that we love, how much more do we want to tell them, “Please, please, please don’t do X, because you hurt me profoundly when you do X.”

Do not confuse this for the Social Justice Warrior “triggering” and “micro-aggression” nonsense.  The presumption here is normal, human sanity. (How sad that I have to even state this….)

Psycho-spiritually sane people do NOT prowl throughout the world seeking the ruin of souls.   Diabolical Narcissists do.  Remember, exactly like demons, they invert everything.

So God, knowing everything, and being pure, infinite LOVE, “breaks” the three rules above, and does it knowing exactly what He is in for in doing so. This is why the image of The Sacred Heart is oftentimes Jesus, literally holding his Heart in His hand, offering it to us, showing it to us, completely exposing it to us.  It is total, complete, infinite vulnerability.

“Here. Take it.”

1.  He tells us that He loves us. Over and over and over again. And, He is, Himself, without question, the most hated thing in the universe. Men and demons hate God precisely because God loves them.
2. He tells us what pleases Him, what He wants from us, both in terms of worship, and in terms of The Law, namely: Love Him above all else, Love our neighbors for love of Him, and spread the Gospel to all men and nations.
3. He tells us what hurts Him.  These are the “Thou shalt nots”….

Looking at this list, it is no surprise whatsoever that Antipope Bergoglio now Antipope “FtR” PERVost and his wretched cabal of moral degenerate apostates all despise solemn, reverent, God-centered liturgy; they rail against The Law and “Lovers of the Law”; and they rail against proselytization.  Antipope Bergoglio called proselytization “solemn nonsense”, told people explicitly NOT to convert to the One True Church, and stated that The Great Commission is SINFUL.  

Finally, everything Antipope Bergoglio and his shambling orcs, first among them Antipope “FtR” PERVost have done to date has had as its goal the disregarding or overriding of The Law.  He is at war with the Rule of Law – GOD’S LAW.  Marriage, confession, reception of Holy Communion, holy orders is coming next, and on and on.

If this does not constitute being at war with God, then I have no idea what does.

And yet, Christ, all-knowing, all-understanding, and pure, incomprehensible love for each and every person, told us exactly how we can hurt Him, because if He didn’t tell us how we can hurt Him, neither would we know, by definition, how to Love Him.

And clearly, to Him it was, we were, YOU ARE worth it.

This is why The Law and the Sacred Heart of Jesus are inextricably connected. 

Hate one, and you hate the other. Period.

Be assured of my prayers. I hope this helps.

Man, doesn’t this hit harder this year? We need this.

June is the month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which burns in infinite, inextinguishable love for every one of us.  That is why hell exists – because He loves us with such infinitude that He can’t snuff us out of existence, even if we tell Him to our dying breaths to go… away.  You know how people hate Him.  He is the most hated Entity in the universe – by a LONG SHOT.  Sit in stillness with that: INFINITE LOVE is the most hated Entity in the universe, which He created and sustains, incarnated, suffered and died for us, and us alone.

Has anyone ever hated you?  Have you ever been the target of a Diabolical Narcissist?  Or even just a sinner? Could YOU snuff that person totally out of existence?  Really? Could you really do that? Jesus couldn’t, and can’t, not because He doesn’t have the ability – of course He has the ability, HE IS THE CREATOR AND SUSTAINER of everything. He can’t snuff any of us, or any of the fallen angels, out of existence because He loves us.  We aren’t chessmen to Him.  We aren’t toy soldiers to Him.  We aren’t ants on the sidewalk to Him. We are incomprehensibly loved rational intellects made in His likeness and image to be loved by Him forever, which necessitates our free will to choose to love Him in return… or hate Him through our indifference and pride.  Love is only love if it is FREELY CHOSEN. Love can NEVER be coerced. Consider that.

So here is a beautiful song from the heart of the 1960s, by the Association.  “Never My Love”.  The lyrics aren’t PERFECT, but I have added [italic brackets] to correct the theological imprecisions IF one hears this song as Our Lord singing to us.  He doesn’t DEPEND on us, and He doesn’t REQUIRE us.  Which only makes the point that much stronger…

Our Lord’s love for us is COMPLETELY GRATUITOUS.

Enjoy Five Nerds and a Filipino Cat singing a beautiful song. I hope you never hear it the same way again.

You ask Me if there’ll come a time
When I grow tired of you
Never, My love
Never, My love

You wonder if this Heart of Mine
Will lose Its desire for you
Never, My love
Never, My love

What makes you think love will end
When you know that My whole life depends
On you (on you) [His existence in absolutely no way depends on any of us created beings, ever. Ever.]
Never, My love
Never, My love

You say you fear I’ll change My Mind
And I won’t require you [He does not REQUIRE any of us.  He is God. He requires nothing. That’s the point…]
Never, My love
Never, My love

How can you think love will end
When I’ve asked you to spend your whole life
With Me (with Me, with Me) [Exactly true, and note the Triune repitition…]

You wonder if this Heart of Mine
Will lose Its desire for you…
Never, My love.

The hashtag #JesusNoticedFirst is brilliant, and it obviously references EVERYTHING about the Jooooz back to His ministry on earth, the ascendancy of the satanic religion of islam centuries later simply falling under the grand umbrella of deception.

Look: the Joooz of today are a bunch of ethnic Slav atheists who glommed onto Rabbinic Judaism centuries ago in order to conquer, via sedition, the earth.

Helluva job, Brownie-stein. To paraphrase Dubya. The only President I cast a vote for. To my shame.

The OLDEST CHRISTIAN village in the world is burning.

Taybeh, Palestine.

The last 100% Christian Palestinian village, where Christ resurrected Lazarus, build the Church of St. Michael. pic.twitter.com/49bgUed8il

— Ethan Levins 🇺🇸 (@EthanLevins2) June 10, 2026

But the jig is up.

The ONLY Israel on this earth is the New and Eternal Israel: The One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, which emerged from the lance wound of Christ Crucified, and received the Holy Ghost in the Upper Room at Pentecost.

The 1948 monstrosity occupying the Holy Land needs to be abolished and expelled.

Right along with the musloids- and BOTH groups expelled from Christendom.

QUOTE ME. FAR AND WIDE. PLEASE.

Ann,

Thank you for writing the post on annulments. There is a great deal I would like to say about this topic, but I will do my best to keep it succinct.

I am a sinner. I was at one time a very bad Novus Ordo Catholic and I was a very bad husband. At one point, I had a conversion of heart and I diligently struggled to cooperate with the grace God offered me to clean up my life and faithfully live as a Catholic man. Around this time, my wife had had enough and was on the verge of leaving me. I desperately fought to keep her, but at the same time, the reality began to set in that she might leave. This forced me to contemplate marriage, divorce, annulments and so forth.

After much prayer, study, and contemplation, I came to the same conclusion you espoused. If my wife left me, I was never going to seek an annulment because there was zero justification for it. A sacrament cannot be undone. I was either married or I was not and if I was married, then not only would it be wrong to seek an annulment, but it would also be an ontological impossibility.

Super long story, somewhat short, I have since doubled down on this and have actually lost friends who no longer associate with me because I believe the modern Church is abusing and lying to people about annulments, what they are, who can receive them and so forth. I believe this is a tragedy that is one of the leading causes of the destruction of Catholic families, the Church and the culture in America. Oh, and it is interesting that the Church doesn’t even claim infallibility for annulments – it’s no secret that the tribunal, even if filled with well-intentioned priests and attorneys, can get this wrong. I am aware of cases that have been reversed by Rome. I actually believe that even non-Catholic marriages, i.e. common law marriages, follow natural law and that natural law marriages are also intended to be perpetual.

On the bright side, my wife saw the changes in me and believed they were sincere. She stuck with me, thanks be to God, and our marriage and family have improved drastically. The irony of the entire situation is that a few years ago, we found out that her baptism was invalid. She and I are both converts to the faith. The modernist priests in our area with their horrible sacramental theology did not have any concern about the validity of the wandering, non-denominational preacher who supposedly baptized my wife without any certificate or other documentation. They never even mentioned the idea of a conditional baptism during her conversion process. My wife’s simple statement that she thought she had been baptized as a teenager at a building used for country music opries was sufficient. A few years ago, we researched everything and found out that the wandering preacher didn’t believe in baptism and likely didn’t use the trinitarian formula – i.e. intent and form were not present. Since she was never baptized, no other sacrament was valid and we were never sacramentally married. We have since rectified the entire situation. She was baptized, confirmed, and we were sacramentally married in the traditional rite about 18 years after our original common law (but not sacramental) marriage.

Thanks for all you do!

Christus Vincit!

Husband